Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second feature of the program, "Sutter's Gold", is a heart-rending drama in which Edward Arnold plays the hardy Swiss immigrant to California. He wrests an empire out of the soil only to see it go tumbling when gold is discovered. Lee Tracy, as Sutter's parasite, and Binnie Barnes, a lovely Russian gold-digger, are other players who are important in this picture which should rend somebody's heart but somehow failed to touch ours...
...future, now that the AAA has come to grief on the Supreme Court rocks, Mr. Wallace declines even to guess where prices may go in case farmer cooperation in the soil conservation substitute for the fallen crop control system is not complete. Since the farm voters bid fair to be in a position to look back yearningly at the AAA days when the time comes for weighing the respective merits of the party platforms this year, the Wallace outlook as to what may happen in 1937 and 1938 could make a great difference at the polls in November...
...effort to induce cooperation in the soil conservation indirect method of crop control fails of substantial support it would seem even possible that a farmer demand for a constitutional amendment approach to the problem might take shape at Philadelphia. It is certainly hardly to be expected at the Republican circus in Cleveland. To this extent then the influence of this rugged, partly grey haired ex-farmer will be felt through out the country...
...toss the ball between the College and the United States Senate, the metropolitan newspapers pulled a series of errors this week-end reminiscent of the balmier days of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Falsely reporting the Senate's resolution to the effect that Congress would welcome foreign governments on Harvard soil September, the journals drew a picture of the University defending with gun and pike the extra-territoriality of the Yard against unwarranted intrusion from above. Fortunately Jerome Greene and the Senate kept their heads above water, for the Senate resolution contains no hint of taking over the Harvard reception committee...
...Philip, Superintendent of the Court of Balls, emissary of Queen Victoria, arrives in Vienna to choose the best orchestra to carry the waltz to England. For this reason, it is two hostile factions that bring the leaping sound to the court at London, and the war continues on foreign soil...